"Don't even think about deciding to buy and outfitting a powerboat for long term cruising until eventually you have got learn this ebook hide to hide. " --Milt Baker, trawler yacht live-aboard and founder, Bluewater Books & Charts Written for proprietors of huge powerboats (more than 35 ft long), this publication selections up the place different references go away off.

A typical sight round the extra northerly shorelines of the British Isles, the typical Eider is the biggest duck within the northern hemisphere. The eider is very good tailored to cold-water environments; the insulating homes of eider down are iconic. The species is taxonomically fascinating, with a variety of well-marked subspecies reflecting the styles of ice insurance in the course of historical glaciations, and those geese have additionally supplied the point of interest for a couple of very important behavioural experiences, specially on feeding ecology and effort budgets.

I wish it had a tang safety, partly because clicking a thumb-piece is for me an unconscious element in swinging and mounting a gun, and 27 SHOTGUNS & SHOOTING THREE partly because a mechanical safety is yet one more layer of protection against firing an accidental shot. But relying upon any mechanical system to the extent of ignoring the muzzles is a ticket to catastrophe. Control of the muzzles is control of safety. In some ways, a hammer gun is safer than a hammerless. You can tell at a glance whether a hammer gun is cocked; with a hammerless gun, you have to assume that it's cocked any time the action is closed.

That doesn't in itself mean they're unsafe with nitro cartridges. Some others were originally nitro-proofed, but similarly, that doesn't mean they're safe to shoot now. Some old black-powder barrels will stand current proof perfectly well, and some old nitro-proofed barrels won't. Don't be mislead by a nitro-proof mark that's a hundred-odd years old-simply because you don't know what's been done to the barrels in the meantime. They may have been rebored, restruck, or otherwise modified in ways that render original proof invalid.

That doesn't in itself mean they're unsafe with nitro cartridges. Some others were originally nitro-proofed, but similarly, that doesn't mean they're safe to shoot now. Some old black-powder barrels will stand current proof perfectly well, and some old nitro-proofed barrels won't. Don't be mislead by a nitro-proof mark that's a hundred-odd years old-simply because you don't know what's been done to the barrels in the meantime. They may have been rebored, restruck, or otherwise modified in ways that render original proof invalid.